Halloween is coming up, although I'm going to have a separate post on that later today. Instead, I've got a separate post with briefs today in part because I wanted to mention the not-really noir movie that's showing as part of Noir Alley tonight just after midnight and again tomorrow that I blogged about back in 2012: Experiment in Terror. Sure, I don't think it's really a noir movie, but it's a pretty darn good film and definitely should be seen if you haven't seen it before. Immediately preceding that on TCM is a double bill of both versions of Alfred Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much: the remake is first at 8:00 PM, followed by the 1934 original at 10:15 PM.
The star of the Noir Alley feature, Experiment in Terror, is Glenn Ford. I mention that because FXM has one of Ford's movies pulled out of the vault to go into the rotation: Heavan With a Barbed Wire Fence, tomorrow (October 29) at 6:00 AM. 24 hours after that, at 6:00 AM October 30, is another very fine movie that's only recently been brought back to the rotation: The Prisoner of Shark Island, about Samuel Mudd, the doctor who treated John Wilkes Booth and paid for it with a trip to federal prison in the Dry Tortugas off the Florida Keys.
We're getting to that portion of the year when foreign countries' film acadmies start announcing what films they're going to send to the US to compete for the nomination for Best non-English-language film, or Best International Film, or whatever the category is currently called, since I don't follow the Oscars that closely. Radio Prague recently did a feature on the film the Czech Republic is nominating, one called Brothers that sounds interesting because it's based on a real incident from the early days of the Communist era. Of course, this is the sort of movie that's never going to make it to the theaters where I am, so I have no idea when I'd ever be able to see it.
Finally, it's time to mention a few more obituaries. Most notable is Richard Roundtree, who will always be remembered for playing John Shaft in the iconic movies of the 1970s, not that that's the only thing that was in his career. Roundtree, who died on Tuesday, was 81. I didn't realize that TV star Richard Moll, who played Bull the bailiff on TV's Night Court in the early 80s as well as doing a lot of game show appearances, was 80 when he died on Thursday. I would have guessed he was maybe early 30s when Night Court started, so maybe a decade younger than he actually was.
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